Cyclones and earthquakes : the Jesuits, prediction, trade, and Spanish dominion in Cuba and the Philippines, 1850-1898
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Cyclones and earthquakes : the Jesuits, prediction, trade, and Spanish dominion in Cuba and the Philippines, 1850-1898
Ateneo de Manila Univesity Press, c2017
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Cyclones & earthquakes : the Jesuits, prediction, trade, & Spanish dominion in Cuba & the Philippines, 1850-1898
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-365) and index
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How is scientific knowledge produced in a colonial context? Furthermore, how is it possible that two colonies such as Cuba and the Philippines could have among the most notable scientific achievements in the history of nineteenth-century Spain? Finally, what happens when these achievements were driven by a religious order like the Society of Jesus? Why and what kinds of interests were at stake? This book is an original, rigorous and well-documented study of how two central fields of scientific prevention—cyclone prediction and earthquake resistant construction—have their roots in the commercial, military, and educational context of late-nineteenth-century Spanish insular possessions.
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